Vol. 8 No. 1 - Spring 1980

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Building South

• Introduction

  1

• Whetting, Setting and Laying Timbers: Black Builders in the Early South

  Peter Wood

  3

• Masters of It All: Black Builders In This Century; Ace Jackson, An Interview

  Darryl Paulsen, Ben Fewel

  9

• Trailers: The Factory, The Business, the Owners

  Pat Beaver, Mary Jane Putzel and Tom Schlesinger

  14

• Busted By Law: Construction Organizing in Atlanta

  Tom Coffin

  26

• Women Working: The Building Trades Begin to Open Up

  Ann Ramsbotham and Pam Farmer

  35

• People's Houses

  41

• South Georgia: Koinonia Partners

  John Egerton

  42

• Appalachia: East Kentucky Housing Development Corporation

  James Branscome

  44

• Inner Cities: Savannah Landmark

  Barry Jacobs

  48

• Inventory of Housing Groups: A State-by-State Roster

  Arnie Katz

  55

• Search for the Garden: Planned Communities

  Mike Smathers

  57

• A Mill Village Tour: East Durham, 1938

  Federal Writers Project

  64

• What We've Forgotten: Community Design Programs

  Annette Anderson

  65

• Mere Building: In Louisiana and Elsewhere

  Bill Rushton

  68

• Kentucky Fried Design: Franchise Architecture

  Douglas A. Yorke

  70

• The Coal Field Passage: Poetry

  P. J. Laska

  74

• Camelot to Containment: John Portman in Atlanta

  Larry Keating

  77

• Billion Dollar Shell Game: The Jim Walter Corporation

  Randall Williams

  86

• Over a Barrel: Southern Waterways and the Army Corps of Engineers

  David Massey

  92

• Building Research

  101

• Book Reviews

  119